'60 percent of police arrests unjustified'

Chairman of National Commission for Women Mamata Sharma criticised the "deteriorating" law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh and asked the government to take some immediate action.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his first public address on Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission at the National Seminar organised by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) spoke briefly about the set of rules regulations, ...

The European Commission's official in charge of drafting business regulation Michel Barnier says the authorities have already oblige banks to report their profits, taxes and subsidies, and starting from 2015 it will apply to other big companies, ...

* EU law to shield small savers in bank rescues * Deposits over 100,000 euro may be affected * Deal establishes national resolution funds * Needs approval of EU finance ministers By Claire Davenport STRASBOURG, France, May 20 (Reuters) - A draft law ...

He is a lawyer, as most election commissioners are, but he and they have been breaking their own rules, and the election law itself. Realizing that the automated polls have been coming up with a very slow count — a task a manual count would have ...

With probe in several terror cases not withstanding judicial scrutiny, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has commissioned the Indian Law Institute (ILI) to study terror cases of last few years to see where the efforts of investigating agencies were ...

The Cabinet on Thursday approved changes in a law to prevent disqualification of chairperson of national scheduled castes commission PL Punia, a Member of Parliament from UP, under the office of profit clause. HT reports.

On April 26, 2013, Supreme Court referred a highly sensitive issue to the law commission. India's highest judicial forum is miffed by the fact that the executive wing of Indian democracy is bulldozing their well-thought out judgments awarding death sentences to accused guilty of serious crimes including rapes and murders of children. The SC wants the law commission to examine the power of the President and the governor under Article 72 in granting mercy without offering any reason. Rakesh ...

Former Chief Justice of India J S Verma, who headed the government-appointed committee to frame a tough law to tackle crime against women in the wake of the December Delhi gang rape incident, died in New Delhi on Monday. He was 80. Dr Yatin Mehta, head of the Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, at MedantaMedicityHospital in Gurgaon where Verma was admitted, told PTI that the former CJI breathed his last at 9:30 pm on Monday. “He was brought in with liver failure and bleeding ...